Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 15:05:18 -0600 From: Steve Passe <smp@teal.csn.org> To: Jay Kirchhoff <jayk@rahul.net> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine Message-ID: <199508112105.PAA29000@clem.systemsix.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 11 Aug 1995 13:50:17 PDT." <Pine.3.89.9508111319.B8230-0100000@jive>
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Hello, On Fri, 11 Aug 1995, Jay Kirchhoff wrote: >I thing IBM has a drive like that. It had two 2 gig 3.5 drives mounted >in a full height frame. The ad said the two drive were addressed as one >and the data was stripped across them. No, the ad I (think) I saw was for a discrete drive. Really not sure why drive makers haven't done this years ago, there are already multiple heads (1 per surface), and they are already 'spindle-synced'. The cost would be duplication of head read/write circuits and some additional combiner silicon. Steve Passe smp@teal.csn.org
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